DGCA to mandate drug tests for pilots across domestic airlines

Posted On: 2026-08-18 Posted By: Neha LM Tripathi

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Aviation safety regulator the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) may soon ask all domestic airlines to conduct drug tests for their pilots, a move prompted by the pilot... Read More

DGCA to mandate drug tests for pilots across domestic airlines

Posted On: 2026-08-18 Posted By: Neha LM Tripathi

Others HT Patna Newspapers

Hydraulic systems failed, controls hit for 4 seconds on turbulence-hit Delhi-Phuket Air India flight

Posted On: 2026-08-14 Posted By: Neha LM Tripathi

Health & Lifestyle Hindustan Times Columnists

India, Aug. 14 -- All three hydraulic systems on the Air India flight from Thailand's Phuket to Delhi that dropped 300 feet, briefly failed, leaving the aircraft without elevators and ailerons for 4 s... Read More

AI asks all pilots to take drug test

Posted On: 2026-08-14 Posted By: Neha LM Tripathi

Others HT Chandigarh Newspapers

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- Air India and Air India Express will begin screening of all their pilots psychoactive substance from Thursday after the commander of a Phuket-Delhi flight that lost altitude shar... Read More

Ai to drug test all pilots after Phuket-delhi flight incident

Posted On: 2026-08-14 Posted By: Neha LM Tripathi

Others HT Chandigarh Newspapers

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- Air India and Air India Express on Thursday mandated psychoactive substance screening for all their pilots, following the commander of a Phuket-Delhi flight last week testing pos... Read More